Esther Choo

@choo.bsky.social

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Emergency Medicine Doc | Mom | Health Services Research | Public Health Preserving a modicum of peace where I can. If engagement is not respectful, I will block.

Painting of Jesus with fish and loaves of bread
White text against black background: BE GOOD
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Hey little one, your mommy turtle’s job was done when she laid you and your brothers and sisters so she’s probably far away in the water and you won’t see her again. You’re meant to be on your own, to find your own food and water, but if you’re near a pond or ocean, crawl towards the waters edge and let yourself swim in!
NYC Healthy post: “Sure you can look for health guidance on the CDC website. You can also buy sushi at the gas station. We don’t recommend either”
Another comment: “I played intermural sports in college, can I be director of intramural research?”
One comment “I just finished a speed run of Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz YouTube clips from their TV shows. I think I’m ready for any of these positions listed.”
Screenshot of FB ad for NIH Director positions.
Onion headline that reads “FDA approves new drug that reverses effects of Narcan”
A screenshot of a FB post: When I started my clinical training, I twice rotated through an HIV service. Hospitals used to have whole wards and inpatient teams dedicated to the care of patients with HIV/AIDS. Because there were so many of them, and they would come in very very sick. Many would die during their hospitalization. I can recall minute details of the patients I cared for on those services, because I spent so much time feeling helpless and afraid for them. Twenty years later, those services don't exist. Because a deep investment in federal research led to transformative, highly effective, well tolerated treatments. Because in the U.S., the treatments were made broadly accessible through Medicaid and HIV public assistance programs. Because there rose up a generation of primary care and infectious disease docs and APPs who dedicated themselves to the care of patients with HIV. (These folks — as far as I can tell from my vantage point in the ER — seem to attach themselves to their patients with the tenacity of a barnacle. Their patients feel CARED for, CONNECTED.) On #WorldAIDSDay, I wanted to honor the trifecta of science, public insurance, and primary care that transformed this disease.
Cleveland Clinic image of different types of fractures.
Kind of creepy Wiki image of supine (facing up) and prone (facing down) positions
Onion headline: “White House Reclassifies Nursing As Hobby”
A Bluesky tweet: “Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it’s far more likely that autism causes vaccines.”
An elderly man has had a syncope event and everyone else in the room rushed over to help. The president stands facing the camera without apparent curiosity or empathy about the event.
Oregon DHS worked quickly to get SNAP payments out through its EBT vendor to make funds available as soon as the court order to fully fund the program went through
An ob/gyn, a family med doc, and an ER doc sit on a stage at a women in medicine conference
Infographic showing excess pediatric deaths in states with permissive gun laws exceed those with strict gun laws.
Understanding the influence of abortion on 2023 U.S. elections
Costco order confirmation
From Dr. Jen Lincoln’s Instagram feed: “a nurse was vaping at the nurses station”
Mexican firefighters arrive in California to help battle wildfires
Cartoon by Mike Lukovich showing Jimmy Carter working on a house outside the gates of heaven, next to a sign that reads, “Habitat for Heaven.” One angel says to another, “Did I mention President Carter arrived?”
Hey man, I'm having a hard time picturing this "rainbow" thing you mentioned seeing. Oh, well, just picture the black line where you sign your name on a DMV form, that's basically it. OK, got it. This manages to be simultaneously deranged and also not visually evocative in the least. It's like somebody sniffed glue and hallucinated the normal contents of a desk drawer.
Well, see, over here, to the south, you got a thread. It lacks stitches. And boy, that thread is really hauling ass. In this sense, it will remind you of a floater. And then if you'll turn around and look over there to the north, you got your classic execution line on a document, the only way that the concept of straightness could be represented for the reader.
This is a 172-car pileup of mixed visual metaphors. What is the damn lightning (which bobs and weaves like a ... a floater) doing, racing the storms? Are you sure that it is racing them? It is racing them ... in a thread? A thread without stitches? Buddy, what the fuck is happening in the sky right now.
While we are on the subject of nature, here is an entire paragraph, one of two about lightning in the story: It’s monsoon season, and lightning bobs and weaves in the corner of your eyes all day like floaters. There are three separate storms to the south, delicately wind-tilted on the horizon. Lightning races them in a stitchless thread, and to the north rain shimmers through the sheerest rainbow, stamped perfectly horizontal against the mountains like the execution line on a document.
A phallic object with three red circles and three corresponding red arrows.
Screenshot of a “Secrets and Spies Podcast followed you” notice
Poster for Body Politic: an evening of live storytelling.
NYT: “The Onion Says It Has Bought Infowars, Alex Jones’s Site, Out of Bankruptcy”
A pic of a tweet from the humorous account @TheTweetOfGod, which reads, “In an ideal scenario the President of the United Stares and the worst person in the world would be two different people.”
In so holding, the Court cements a superficial rule of colorblindness as a constitutional principle in an endemically segregated society where race has always mattered and continues to matter.
“What would happen if migrants on boats with limited resources were also seen as brave explorers gifted with curiosity and wonder for depths unknown, I wonder.” - Author Min Jin Lee